Re: [GENERAL] Czech2ASCII with --mb=Latin2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Robert wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I have a database in Latin2 encoding (Czech stuff) and Latin2/Win1250
> on-the-fly recoding with 'set client_encoding' works smoothly. Now, when
> I set client encoding to SQL_ASCII, accented characters are converted to
> (hexa) codes. Is there any (simple) way to make this recoding convert
> accented characters to just the chars themselves but without accents?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Robert

 Ahoj :-)

 if I good remember, in PgSQL is not any routine for this (IMHO is it
lang-specific and make any generally (for all langs and encodings..etc)
routine is problem). But you can easy write this in C or Tcl.

                        Karel